Hamas’s deputy political commander, Marwan Issa, was “eradicated” in a navy strike earlier this month, Israel has stated.
If the intelligence is right, he could be the highest-ranking Hamas chief to have been killed in Gaza because the begin of the present battle between Israel and Hamas in October.
Fighter jets struck an underground compound in central Gaza between 9 and 10 March.
One other Hamas commander, Aziz Abu Tamaa, was believed to be with Issa.
The Israel Defence Forces stated it had confirmed preliminary experiences.
“We have now checked all of the intelligence,” Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari stated.
“Marwan Issa was eradicated within the strike we carried out round two weeks in the past.”
There was no speedy remark from Hamas.
Jake Sullivan, the White Home nationwide safety adviser, stated final week that Issa had died.
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Issa was often known as “shadow man” for his capacity to evade Israeli forces and had reportedly been hiding underground.
Born in 1965, he was considered a kind of behind the Hamas assaults in Israel on 7 October.
About 1,200 folks have been killed and a whole bunch extra taken hostage.
Others on Israel’s most-wanted checklist embrace Mohammed Deif, the pinnacle of Hamas’s navy wing, and Hamas’s chief in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.
Each are believed to be in Gaza.
Sinwar spent greater than 20 years in Israeli prisons earlier than being launched with greater than 1,000 different Palestinian prisoners in alternate for a captive Israeli soldier in 2011.
